Here’s some proof that headlines really do matter

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Headlines are powerful. Everyone in the press knows this.

This power has never been clearer now that newsrooms can monitor what attracts readers and how long they spend actually reading our stories. Attention spans were small prior to the age of online news, and they’ve only gotten smaller.

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